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Hey all - Thanks for the help on the settings. I've got one more set of questions. I posted them on the owners thread, but haven't gotten any response so far. I thought I'd try again here:

When watching a dark scene (or viewing an all black image), my screen appears somewhat brighter around all four edges (about 1/4 inch on all 4 sides). Is this normal? I thought plasma screens were supposed to be uniformly dark. I'm using THX by the way.

I am coming off an LCD with major "flash-lighting" problems, so it is possible that I am being a bit paranoid. Thanks in advance for your input.

Here are the best settings I have come up with yet. There seems to be a lot of variation in the response of these sets to published settings. Checking some settings and measurements that have been posted gave results that were very much worse that were obtained on the other persons set.

There were no adjustments to the Service Menu, and the set has the original A-Board.

Thanks to zoyd for pointing me in the right direction and donnymac for basics on gamma and RGB !!!

Here are the best settings I have come up with yet. There seems to be a lot of variation in the response of these sets to published settings. Checking some settings and measurements that have been posted gave results that were very much worse that were obtained on the other persons set.

There were no adjustments to the Service Menu, and the set has the original A-Board.

Thanks to zoyd for pointing me in the right direction!!

Are these settings for a well lit or darker viewing environment? Or does it matter?

Here are the best settings I have come up with yet. There seems to be a lot of variation in the response of these sets to published settings. Checking some settings and measurements that have been posted gave results that were very much worse that were obtained on the other persons set.

There were no adjustments to the Service Menu, and the set has the original A-Board.

Thanks to zoyd for pointing me in the right direction and donnymac for basics on gamma and RGB !!!

I found the THX mode to have way too much contrast out of the box. For instance if i see a white shirt, I want to see the threads, not a white glow. I found these settings provide a very natural looking picture.

Plus, i don't consider myself an expert on the matter, but i think whole running slides to break in the display is a complete waste of time. To me that's just a 100 hours of the panels prime life gone. And i would recommend not using the SM settings from a different display. I would suggest unless you have a proper calibration done, leave the factory settings. Just my opinion.

After trying a few different settings for custom, I've settled on using Dave_O's settings above. In my opinion, the skin tones looks the most natural. Thanks for the work you did and the posting Dave_O. I really appreciate it.

After trying a few different settings for custom, I've settled on using Dave_O's settings above. In my opinion, the skin tones looks the most natural. Thanks for the work you did and the posting Dave_O. I really appreciate it.

Another vote for Dave_O's. I stated by using the settings James Cameron provided for the Avatar disc , but those were for a 25 and had no settings for G. Watching Avatar with Cameron's setting was good, then I found Dave_O's here and watching again got even better

So tonight I had a chance to play around with a 60" GT30 at my local Best Buy.. My goal was to make the whites white and the black black with eye popping color.. Once done this TV looked fantastic and easily stuck out as having the best picture of all the sets around it.. Again, this was done at a local Best Buy store.. So if it's too bright for your house don't shoot the messenger! Instead, have some fun and give it a try.

I dialed in the settings last night and holy crap do they look nice! I was happy with my picture before but this is amazing. I watched hockey, MLB (total eye candy) football, HBO (now I know what people mean by deep blacks). Golf looked like I was watching out the window. All looked great. One thing, with the panel brightness on "Low" these settings are for dark room viewing. This morning I put the panel brightness up to "Medium" and lowered the color to the upper 30s, it's still pretty good - football, hockey, and the Red Bull Air Racing looked especially good.

I dialed in the settings last night and holy crap do they look nice! I was happy with my picture before but this is amazing. I watched hockey, MLB (total eye candy) football, HBO (now I know what people mean by deep blacks). Golf looked like I was watching out the window. All looked great. One thing, with the panel brightness on "Low" these settings are for dark room viewing. This morning I put the panel brightness up to "Medium" and lowered the color to the upper 30s, it's still pretty good - football, hockey, and the Red Bull Air Racing looked especially good.

Thanks. I agree about the brightness. I tried for over 10 hours total to get the Gamma and White Balance good with a Panel Brightness of Medium, but got nowhere. I am still learning the art, and won't touch the service menu

I had a buddy over last night for MNF to show off my new 60", using Dave-O's settings. The skin tone was excellent, colors vibrant, but the field looked the color of pea soup. I changed the Tint to bring in the green, but then the announcers looked like they took a bath in spray tan. I apologized and gave up trying to fix it. When they showed an aerial shot of Detroit, the baseball park next to the stadium was lit, and the green field was stunning - perfect color balance. So, I don't think anything was wrong with my settings, but that turf must be old and dingy!